December 2009
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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment →
READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. -via NYT David Pogue’s 2009 Best Tech Ideas This is like time traveling to the web in 1994, except better.
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Digital White Flight: How Race & Class Shaped... →
draft (PDF) of an upcoming article by social media’s premiere academic Danah Boyd
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 23rd
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“For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for...”
– Nicolas Carr, The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com
Dec 18th
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What It's Like To Write For Demand Media: Low Pay... →
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 4th
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Facebook | Nonja →
This monkey gets treats every time it takes a picture of itself which automatically uploads to Facebook. I can’t read German, but that’s what I want to think.
Dec 3rd
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ListenI’m not “into” Christmas music,...
Dec 2nd
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“In Denmark, it’s legal to make copies of commercial videos for backup or...”
– Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law - Boing Boing Cojones of Steel
Dec 2nd
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How journalism will survive? Conferences! «... →
In the process of finishing up The Chaos Scenario right now. A recurring message of this and related books like Crush It and Trust Agents seems to be “Just be awesome!” and “Listen to your audience!” I want to go to this, but have plans for research regarding study of a related area with the Web Ecology Project. If you attend next Tuesday don’t forget to print this...
Dec 2nd
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Envisioning Development: What is Affordable... →
Absolutely stunning interactive map of income distribution in NYC by neighborhood. via Noah Brier
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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WatchWatch
Hour of Kindness- Episode 4- Polygons- Improv Track 1 on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Josh Atkins and Miguel Sabogal have taken their improvised analogue synth act Polygons to the next level. It’s like the Microsoft screensaver Mystify Your Mind became self aware and started popping pills to the Blade Runner soundtrack.
Dec 1st